Centre
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Faced with an invasion of Russian state-minded companies, EU member states are tempted to ring-fence certain sectors of their economies (such as domestic energy markets), threatening the liberal economic order that is at the
centre
of the European project.
However, if there was discrimination, it was not direct, because under Czech law, such a move could be decided only by a school headmaster based on the results of an intelligence test at an educational psychology counseling centre, and subject to the approval of the child’s parents or legal guardian.
Now, before our eyes, Obama is repositioning the US at the
centre
of a web of global bilateral relationships – the “G-2” economic relationship with China, the nuclear relationship with Russia, and now the search for a relationship of mutual respect and cooperation with the Muslim world.
William Butler Yeats captured it best with one of his most famous poems, The Second Coming, written about Ireland’s revolt against British rule in 1919: “Things fall apart; the
centre
cannot hold / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed … The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”
The face that was most dear to him, that of Christ, the
centre
of the picture, which had so enraptured him when he first discovered it, now, regarded from the others' standpoint, seemed quite worthless.
That expression pleased her more than all else she saw and she felt that it was the
centre
of the picture, and that therefore praise of it would be agreeable to the artist.
He went on with his work with a feeling that the
centre
of gravity of his attention had shifted, and that he consequently saw the matter differently and with greater clearness.
Koznyshev was the
centre
around whom the rest were grouped.
In the
centre
of the room stood a man in uniform, who announced in a loud shrill voice:'As candidate for the post of Provincial Marshal, Captain Eugene Ivanich Apukhtin will now be balloted for.'
In that short time the
centre
of the cloud had already so moved over the sun that it was as dark as during an eclipse.
In the
centre
an iron fireplace, a sort of closed stove without a door, glowed red and was so stuffed with burning coal that fragments flew out and rolled on to the trodden soil.
Now his house had prospered; it had become a centre, and he was enriched by the animosity he had gradually fostered in the hearts of his old comrades.
To carry on an extensive correspondence, to discuss the fate of the workers in the four corners of the province, to give advice to the Voreux miners, especially to become a
centre
and to feel the world rolling round him--continually swelled the vanity of the former engineman, the pike-man with greasy black hands.
But in the centre, as they went on, there was hustling.
The Voreux arose in the
centre
of the great space.
Black in the shade, dark blue in broad daylight, they had, as it were, depths of different colours, that, darker in the centre, grew paler towards the surface of the eye.
But Charles, giving a last look to the harness, saw something on the ground between his horse's legs, and he picked up a cigar-case with a green silk border and beblazoned in the
centre
like the door of a carriage.
But the circle of which he was the
centre
gradually widened round him, and the aureole that he bore, fading from his form, broadened out beyond, lighting up her other dreams.
Thus side by side, while Charles and the chemist chatted, they entered into one of those vague conversations where the hazard of all that is said brings you back to the fixed
centre
of a common sympathy.
Henceforth the memory of Leon was the
centre
of her boredom; it burnt there more brightly than the fire travellers have left on the snow of a Russian steppe.
Silver plate sparkled in the jeweller's windows, and the light falling obliquely on the cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell-turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks, narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst melons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, were twisting paper round bunches of violets.
But when he had gone a league from Verrieres, where he was leaving such a treasure of love behind him, he thought only of the pleasure of seeing a capital, a great military
centre
like Besancon.
But, in order to reach the
centre
of the baldachino, over the tabernacle, one had to step across an old wooden cornice, possibly worm-eaten, and forty feet from the ground.
He arranged them admirably upon the ornament in the form of a crown in the
centre
of the baldachino.
'So here I am in the
centre
of intrigue and hypocrisy!
Mademoiselle de La Mole was the
centre
of a little group that assembled almost every evening behind the Marquise's immense armchair.
The blue sofa was the
centre
of the group, as in winter.
He would be given the number of the building where he was to present himself, which was in a street in a suburb well away from the city
centre
which K. had never been to before.
It was an extremely irksome task, servitors brought him the mail, bank staff came with various queries and, when they saw that K. was busy, stood by the door and did not go away until he had listened to them, the deputy director did not miss the opportunity to disturb K. and came in frequently, took the dictionary from his hand and flicked through its pages, clearly for no purpose, when the door to the ante-room opened even clients would appear from the half darkness and bow timidly to him - they wanted to attract his attention but were not sure whether he had seen them - all this activity was circling around K. with him at its
centre
while he compiled the list of words he would need, then looked them up in the dictionary, then wrote them out, then practised their pronunciation and finally tried to learn them by heart.
You stand in the
centre
of the deck, and, as the ship heaves and pitches, you move your body about, so as to keep it always straight.
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